We have completed a 245sqm contemporary addition to a country home on a beautiful site outside Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Designed to make best use of incredible views over the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the project adds three en-suite bedrooms and a variety of new living spaces to create a spacious and low-energy family home. Rather than raze all buildings on the site to the ground, the design successfully retains the existing Victorian farm-workers cottage whilst using its form, materials and history to influence the design of the contemporary additions.